Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, California 94141-9100,
Cardiovascular Research Institute and
Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143

Author contributions

Disclosures

Received September 13, 2000.

Revision received November 2, 2000.

Accepted November 3, 2000.

This research was funded in part by National Institutes of Health Grant HL37063. We thank Dale Newland for help with preparing tissue sections, David Walker for advice on in situ hybridization and for help with construct preparation, Shih-Jen Shyh for providing the HEG.LE8 construct, Manuel Buttini for advice on tissue autoradiograms, and David Sanan for help with microscopy and imaging. We also thank Stephen Ordway and Gary Howard for editorial assistance, Steven Gonzalez and John Carroll for help with figures, and Naima Contos for manuscript preparation.

Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. John M. Taylor, The J. David Gladstone Institutes, P.O. Box 419100, San Francisco, CA 94141-9100. E-mail: jtaylor{at}gladstone.ucsf.edu.